If you're thinking about picking up and moving to a new city, you have a lot of research to do before you even begin looking for jobs there. The average salary, rental or real estate prices, crime statistics, best and worst neighborhoods, transit situation—they're all things you'll have to dig into before you decide… »6/06/13 4:00am 6/06/13 4:00am

Whether you're a student looking for supplemental learning or you're in the workforce but thirsty for knowledge, you don't have to drop thousands of dollars in tuition to enjoy a top-notch education from some of the best schools in the world. »8/18/10 9:00am 8/18/10 9:00am

Despite the proliferation of laptops and netbooks, the vast majority of students still use their computers like $500 typewriters. Stop working so hard and be a better student by leveraging some clever computer tools to your advantage. »1/06/10 2:30pm 1/06/10 2:30pm

If you're a U.S. college student, or at least having a working .edu email address, you don't have to pay $120 to upgrade Vista to Windows 7. You can get the Home Premium upgrade for just $30. Updates: See below. »9/17/09 5:30am 9/17/09 5:30am

It's easy to forget these days that the internet started out as a place for academics and researchers to trade data and knowledge. Recapture the web's brain-expanding potential with these free resources for educating yourself online. »3/28/09 9:00am 3/28/09 9:00am

Wikipedia school edition »10/24/08 9:00am 10/24/08 9:00am is an offline DVD version of Wikipedia by (a charity for orphans) filled with "checked content" from the user-edited online encyclopedia. The 2.9GB download is available only via BitTorrent, and to top it off, here's a quote you don't hear every day: "It helps our charity if you keep µTorrent…

If you're looking for information on public and private schools all over the United States, as well as colleges and public libraries, then you'll want to check out the National Center for Education Statistics Global Locator. You can search by state, city, zip or name; your search will return detailed information such… »7/14/07 11:00am 7/14/07 11:00am

College info site NextPath has written up a great list of thirteen things that we probably all wished we had learned in college..you know, right next to that gripping dissection of Plato's Republic. The one that I found myself nodding my head at was this: »1/21/07 9:00am 1/21/07 9:00am

Quintura for Kids is a child- and school-friendly version of the Quintura See & Find search engine, which employs a cloud-like environment for conducting web searches. »12/28/06 11:00am 12/28/06 11:00am